The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-02
RIGHTS OF THE uTES.
They Have Been Tranpled Upon by Ken.
dali and fhS w-Boys-Their Stock
Eonfscated and other 0utrages Pctpe-
trated-Uncle Sam Takes Poor los Part:

1ney nave IoStn lFatDp1ed L pom Df fAen@
dali and fIlS w-Roys-Their Stock
Eonfiscated and Other 0Gtrages Pcrpe-
trated-Uncle Sam Takes Poor los Part:
WAsHNGToH, Aug. 31.-The information
received here Ir0ln official Sources regard
ing the Indian troubles in Colorado make it
| appear that the Indians are not, and have
not been on the war-path, hut that they
have been the victims of unprovoked ILL
treatment by the cowboys and State au-
thoIities Yesterday the War Department
got dispatch from General Terry; OF Chi
cago, Suggesting that Indian AGENT BFrHes
should be instructed to remove from his
reservation all persons who may intTude
upon it, and that the military commander
at Fort Duchesne be instructed to give him
all the assistance that he may require
General MacFeely, Acting Secretary of
War, submitted this telegram to the Presi-
dent at the Cabinet meeting yesterday and
the Situation was carefully considered, re-
sulting in telegraphic instructions being
sent yesterday AFTERNOON by the President
through the Interior Departments to Gov
ernor Adams, OF Colorado, to confine the ac=
tions of the civil authorities strictly within
the limits of the statutes, so as to prevent
the sheriff's posse or the militia from cross
ing the reservation borders. Should such
precipitate action be taken it is feared that
disastrous outbreak of the reservation In=
dams would follow, and every thing possi=
BILE will be done to avoid such result.
A telegram from Major Randlett, conf
manding at Fort Duchesne, to General
Terry said:
sgolorew and all his folio wers are now at
Ouray Agency; and manifest a disposition to
remain on the reservation: There is no moro
excitement among the Indians: the militia
and cowboys hold hundreds of horses and
thousands of sheep and goats be-
longing to Colorow and Chipeta, Ouray's
widow The stock was grazing on the
land claimed by the Indians as belonging
to their reservation, and where they have been
permitted BY their agent to live for years.
Colorado settlers have claimed locations there,
and have at last succeeded in driving the In.
dams in. Colorow has not in this trouble been
on the warpath and has made his way to the
Reservations avoiding hostlities as far as posi-:
ble''
Agent Byrnes of the Ouray Agency tele=
graphed the following to the Indian Office
here to-day:
'Golorow and his followers are now at the
agency. They say they are not mad and don't
want to fight. They express themselves
as willing to remain on the reserya=
ton. Major Leslie; who fired on these In
dams on the border OF the reservation, took
possession of and ran off about 300 head of the
Indians horses that were grazing on the public
lands near the reservation line. The horses
were corralled at Rangely, Col, by Major Les
lie; who informed Lieutenant Burnett that he
would hold them until certain Indians were de-
livered up to him. The cowbows are breaking
these Indian horses for their own use. Unless
something is quickly done these horses
will not be recovered. [ therefore request that
|
to allow Colonel Randlett, commanding Fort
Duchesne, to send d detail of men to bring
these horses on the reservation, as it would be
dangerous for Indians to go as well as agency
employees, as they would be roughly
handled, being known to be in sym.
pathy with the indians. These Indians,
when pursued by Sheriff Kendall were
compelled to abandon 1000 sheep, besides large
herds of goats, which should also be recovered
with the horses: These Indians when attacked
in Colorado were on a peaceful hunting ex
petition and they believed that they had d
right under the treaty of 1874 as understood by
them and the commissioners to hunt upon
| these lands in Colorado"
commissioner Atkins sent dispatch to
Governor Adams urging him to cooperate
with Agent Byrnes in securing the return of
the property stolen from the Indians.
DENVER, Col, Aug. 31.-Unless the Indians
should attack Kendall and Leslie In their IN
trenched position at Rangely further blood.
shed is not likely in the Ute war; s~:
When the agent at the reservation de-
clares that all his Utes are now at home he
does not include Colorow and his outfit
neither do they recognize him.
Kendall and Pray of the scouts are re-
ported to have quarTeled over the disposition
of the captured ponies. Kendall tried to hold
them, but Pray considered them as spoils of
war and the property of the captors. Some
Of the ponies have reached Meeker
and others have disappeared, until less than
half of the original 400 are at Rangely The
loss of these ponies will be the great griev-
ance of the Utes when Crook trie& to adjust
the quarrel. Whatever terms Crook makes
the Indians must be kept out Of the
State, or the settlers will have no feeling
of security on their widely scattered
and remote ranches. The impression is
steadily growing that the whole affair was
wanton and unnecessary, and that the In
dams fought only when they found they
must. Less precipitate action on KendalPs
part would have prevented bloodshed on
either side. -